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    Football field security -- camera layout/design

    My BI will let me choose only 20:9 aspect ratio sizes. Is there something I don't know to change the aspect ratio?
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    Football field security -- camera layout/design

    Do these ANNKE cameras have as much image warping as the Dahua 180 deg equivalent? If they are just as bad, I wonder if they'd be a good choice?
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    Less sharpness in T54PRO-ZE (versus 5442-S3) possibly due to noise reduction being applied even if set to ZERO?

    You could try ROI on the soft areas. That could possibly isolate the difference between the sensor and the processing.
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    The official "WTF" thread

    Could be a disguised marketing spam. You logically went on to discover who they were and could potentially look at their site and buy something. Plus whoever reads your IPCT post knows about them now.
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    Dahua Product Availability in the U.S. ends December 31, 2025

    Notice that it says: "Operating a device with revoked certification could become illegal", making the IPCT membership list an easy starting point for the SWAT raids.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Perhaps. I have both a positive view, and a negative view. The positive view: If we backpedaled the insurance system to where it was 50 to 60 years ago, it would cost a lot less. One example is the providers didn't fight the insurance companies. The individual paid the bill, then submitted it...
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    Dahua Product Availability in the U.S. ends December 31, 2025

    Maybe there's a fallback of using the old way to order cameras the old way via email or PM. With some careful wordsmithing, one could claim that the sale wasn't done in the US. Or possibly we're small enough to fly under the radar. I don't see anything in the memo prohibiting shipping to the...
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    Money & Economics

    By my logic this is signaling a top in gold. Disclaimer: Only a fool would believe my predictions. "So many customers flocked to a New York City gold dealer this past week that staff had to ask people to wait outside."...
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    Dahua Product Availability in the U.S. ends December 31, 2025

    This article must be related: Major US online retailers remove listings for millions of prohibited Chinese electronics Some snips below. This is possibly one of those common misleading media articles. What it says could be interpreted as barring Andy from shipping to USA...
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    Money & Economics

    I think this simple-looking comparison has a lot of complex interactions behind it, to the point of not knowing what it means, if it has any meaning at all. I don't have any answers, just a lot of questions. I can't find in the article how the gold is valued. I'm assuming in dollars, which...
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    The official "WTF" thread

    Sounds like a self-defining WTF to me. Zelensky Says Ukraine Will Nominate Trump for Nobel Peace Prize If He Sends Tomahawk Missiles - News From Antiwar.com
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    Dahua 5442/T54IR vs the rest

    IPC-Color4M-T IPC-Color4M-TL IPC-Color4M-TZ IPC-Color4M-XL IPC-Color8M-TL I can do some "rocket science" things and fill out tax forms, but I sure can't make any sense out of these model numbers!
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    Dahua 5442/T54IR vs the rest

    Is this thing on Andy's site? Does it have a different model number?
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    This means that AZ is going to be paying me a lot of money for the drugs I use. Added to no tax on social security, I'm going to get filthy rich. I might just buy out Andy's entire inventory!
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    Funny / Satire

    I'm getting more and more scared of this AI. The end result has been foretold in a lot of sci-fi movies. The oldest I remember is 2001, "I'm sorry I can't do that Dave".
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    I changed mine to democrat. In Oregon, with rare exceptions, statewide elections are always won by the democrat. Voting in the republican primary is a total waste. The primary winner will never be elected in the general election. Voting in the democrap primary gives at least a little say at...
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    Progressive Liberal Hypocrisy

    In the context of the article, the statement "Americans have been bombarded with messaging suggesting any criticism of radical Islam is Islamophobic. " is laughable, since any criticism of Israel is deemed antisemitic. Perhaps if Israel didn't play the antisemitism card so much, there wouldn't...
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    Money & Economics

    In Oregon, property taxes increase 3% per year, plus whatever special levies are passed by the voters. Not affected by inflation stats or market values. This is a simplification of a more complex system, but in the end, the actual outcome.
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    The official "WTF" thread

    I'm getting this for post 2448, 4 or 5 posts above: "Loading Facebook SDK. You will need to disable any adblocker, privacy extension, or built-in tracking protection." In other words, if we can't put all of our crap in your face and track you, you can't play.
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    Need help tweaking motion detection on a thermal camera in a tree...

    You can use IVS with the thermal camera. It's "dumb" IVS, no human/vehicle filters.
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    Amazon Vine Program

    A beef I have is that it's now required to log in to read all but the first few reviews. More big brother tracking.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    No need to convince me that republicans are bad. I think they're a little bit less bad than the dems, but they're all members of the uniparty. The uniparty has 2 teams to keep everybody distracted while they fleece the sheep.
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    Enshittification of the Internet

    The media outlet posting this article is not one that I recommend, yet this article nails so much of how the Internet is turning into a pile of "stuff". It uses Amazon as its example, but it's more than just Amazon. For Amazon, the author breaks it into stages of development: Stage 1: Good to...
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    Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series

    Here are a couple of posts about the same mechanism posted by CCTVcam, stated differently. https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/fov-calc-help.72989/#post-807169
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    Using POE NVR without providing power

    POE switches use Mode A. I'm sure there's an exception somewhere, but I've never found one. Standalone injectors are the ones that use Mode B.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    My take is that the purpose of the subsidies is to continue covering up how obamacare has totally ruined the healthcare system. All of the added bureaucrats, the insurers, and big pharma are being taxpayer subsidized, and the dems want to keep this hidden.
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    Funny / Satire

    Not all shit is old.
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    Amazon Vine Program

    Kudos for not becoming part of The Borg.
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    Can Western Digital Gold drives be used in an NVR?

    The purple drive is advertised to be optimized for surveillance use. Unless somebody here has some inside knowledge, none of us know squat about what that means, or what difference it makes. All we have is user experience. Mine is that I've been running a white label drive for a couple of...
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    Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series

    I got 4 power cords. Am I the high point winner? Too bad I already have more of these than I know what to do with. I think using gold coins for filler would have been more efficient.
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